New Voice Joins the Call for Pay Cuts This week saw a new voice join the call for reducing military pay and benefits, and from all places the call is coming from...
TRICARE: ID Card Changes TRICARE beneficiaries should make sure they have their Social Security number committed to memory. It won’t be found on new...
2012 Defense Act - Pay Increase, Changes to Special Pay and TRICARE The Senate Armed Services Committee has completed their mark-up of the National Defense Authorization Acto for Fiscal Year...
Proposed TRICARE Pharmacy Co-Pays and More... Tom Philpott offers details on the Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
TRICARE Q&A - TRICARE Young Adult TriWest Healthcare Alliance, the West Region contractor for the TRICARE program, helps answer general TRICARE questions each...
Military Retirement Watch – Aug. 30 In the interest of keeping our readers up to date on the Military Retirement Reform proposal, I will be posting a weekly...
Copayment for TRICARE Meds Changing Oct. 1 As of Oct. 1, 2011, copayments for generic prescription medications will be free of charge for 90 day supplies through...
Is the Post-9/11 GI Bill Safe? Military.com’s Bryant Jordan recently reported that vets groups like the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and...
Servicemembers Oppose Retirement System Changes A recent Fleet Reserve Association survey found that more than 80 percent of the 1,700 respondents strongly opposed proposals...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
